Download - Unit 1 tourism part 1
ELECTIVE GEOGRAPHYOUR CHANGING WORLD
GLOBAL TOURISM
IS TOURISM THE WAY TO GO?
Typical?
Crazy
Tourist?
Stereotype?
Exploitatio
n?
GATEWAY 1
HOW DOES THE NATURE OF TOURISM VARY FROM PLACE TO PLACE?
Visit the Geography Unit Facebook Page, look for the fortnightly online research
assignment and prepare for the questions.
WHAT IS TOURISM
Tourism is the activity or practice of touring.
The business of providing accommodation, services for the purpose of touring.
ARE THEY TOURISTS?• Students on an overnight Learning
Journey to Malacca.
• Students doing a week long Overseas Immersion Program in China.
• A businessman who goes to London for a week to meet clients and have meetings.
• A mother who brings her child back to her ancestral village in another country for a month-long visit?
• Students going to their own school for a 3 day camp.
Categorise the
information into a table.Tourists VS Non-tourists
WHO ARE TOURISTS?
Person who travel and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than 24 hours but not more than a consecutive year for leisure, business or other purposes.
PG 5
HOW DO TOURIST DESTINATIONS DIFFER?
• Scenic Beauty
• Good Facilities
• Rich Culture
• Places of Conflict
• Space Tourism
PG 5
SCENIC BEAUTY
SCENIC BEAUTY - HONEYPOT TOURISM
Tourism that attracts large crowds to scenic sites
Tend to be overcrowded during peak seasons
Tourist facilities are developed at these sites eg: hotels, shopping centres, transport stations
More tourists are attracted to these sites as a result, like bees to flowers (Honeypot)
SCENIC BEAUTY
MOUNTAINS
• Winter sports
• Mountaineering, hiking
• Bird and wildlife watching
• Himalayas, Asia
• Rockies, North America
LANDSCAPE BEAUTY
• Jiuzhaigou, China
• Sahara Desert, West Africa
• Grand Canyon, USA
• Halong Bay, Vietnam
• Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe & Zambia
SCENIC BEAUTYEXAMPLES YOU SHOULD KNOW
COASTAL RESORTS
• Southeast Asia – Bali, Phuket
• Mediterranean Sea - Cancun, Caribbean Islands
• Mexico – gulf of mexico
WILDLIFE
• Safaris in the plains of Kenya
• Great Barrier Reef, Australia (diving site)
PITSTOP 2
Turn to Pg8 of your textbook.
Let’s attempt Pitstop 2 together!
LET’S LOOK AT VICTORIA FALLS
GOOD FACILITIES
GOOD FACILITIES
• MICE
• Educational facilities
• Medical and Spa facilities
• Theme Parks
GOOD FACILITIES - MICE
• Meetings, Incentives, Conventions & Events
• Venues that can host large-scale meetings and conventions
• Supporting infrastructure – hotels, retail outlets, transport facilities
• E.g Singapore (pg 8 & 9)
GOOD FACILITIES - EDUCATIONAL
• Include attractions that attract people in search for study tours (Angkor Wat)
• Travel for education purposes or to learn something about a place
• Intensive overseas education programme where universities are reputed for education excellence
• E.g. United Kingdom (pg 10)
GOOD FACILITIES – MEDICAL AND SPA
• Travelling for medical reasons – Medical tourism
• To avoid long waiting periods or high medical costs back home
• In search of higher quality medical care
• Eg. South Korea – cosmetic surgery
GOOD FACILITIES – MEDICAL AND SPA
• Travelling for health reasons – Health tourism
• To maintain, enhance or restore their minds and bodies
• Include spa towns, thermal springs and mud pools
• Eg: Dead Sea (between Jordan and Israel) – (pg 11)
GOOD FACILITIES – THEME PARKS
• Places with amusement park settings or attractions with a central theme
• Refer to extensive examples in page 13…
GOOD FACILITIESEXAMPLES YOU SHOULD KNOW
MICE
• Singapore
• Barcelona, Spain
• Berlin, Germany
Educational
• United Kingdom
• Melbourne, Australia
• Beijing, China
Medical and Spa
• South Korea
• Budapest, Hungary (spa)
Theme Parks
• Tokyo Disneyland
• Universal Studios, Los Angeles
PITSTOP 3
Turn to Pg 13 of your textbook.
Using what we have covered thus far,
complete the table (Qn 6).
4 minutes
RICH CULTURE
RICH CULTURE
• Heritage Tourism
• Film-induced Tourism
• Gourmet Food and Shopping Tourism
• Pilgrimage Tourism
RICH CULTURE - HERITAGE
Lost city of the Incas – Machu Picchu, Peru
RICH CULTURE - HERITAGE
• Locations for tourists to experience different cultures and understand their history better
• Promotes a country’s identity, culture and history to international tourists
• Eg: museums, traditional festivals, national and historical monuments
RICH CULTURE –FILM-INDUCED
• Locations featured in films
• To understand how certain scenes in the movies were filmed
• To understand how these places inspired the film
RICH CULTURE –GOURMET & SHOPPING
• Tourism for the purpose of enjoying cuisines or to shop
• Gourmet – Hong Kong
• Shopping – street markets of London, UK
RICH CULTURE - PILGRIMAGEGood Friday at Jerusalem, Israel
RICH CULTURE –PILGRIMAGE
• Travel to take part in religious activities
• Usually involves a journey to a sacred or religious place
• Major religious holidays also play a role in drawing large crowds
RICH CULTUREEXAMPLES YOU SHOULD KNOW
Heritage
• Beijing, China (Forbidden City, Great wall of China)
• Athens, Greece (Acropolis)
• Machu Picchu, Peru
Film-Induced
• Mumbai, India (Slumdog Millionaire)
• New Zealand (Lord of the Rings)
• Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China (Avatar)
Pilgrimage
• Vatican City (Easter for Catholics)
• Mecca in Saudi Arabia (Hajj for Muslims)
• Varanasi, India (Ganga Festival for Hindus)
CONFLICT
Syria DRC
N Korea
DARK TOURISM
• Travel to places associated with death and tragedy
• Wars, battles, man-made tragedies
• Tourists include survivors, relatives and friends of those affected, people interested to know more about the events
• Eg: battlefields, museums, memorials, fortifications
SPACE TOURISMTo infinity and beyond???
SPACE TOURISM
• Travel beyond the earth’s atmosphere into space
• Suborbital flights can last less than a day
• Russian Space Agency - trips to International Space Station
• Costly – US$20 to US$35 million
• Trips last between 8 to 15 days
HOW CAN SINGAPORE COMPETE ?
HOW CAN SINGAPORE COMPETE ?
• Make a list of Singapore’s tourist attractions
• Classify which type of attractions they each belong to
Good Facilities?
• MICE
• Educational
• Health and Spa
• Theme Parks
Rich Culture?
• Heritage
• Film-induced
• Gourmet & Shopping
• Pilgrimage
Scenic Beauty?
Dark Tourism?
FACTORS AFFECTING NATURE OF TOURISM
• Physical Factors
• Type of landscape• Weather and Climate
• Human Factors
• Marketing• Infrastructure• Costs
• Different groups of people promoting tourism
• Government• Media• International Organisations• Travel writers
ROLES OF DIFFERENT GROUPS IN PROMOTING TOURISM
• Government
• Media
• International Organisations
• Org for Economic Co-operation & Development
• UNWTO• Travel Writers
GOVERNMENT
• The government is directly involved in the planning, funding and building infrastructure projects linked to tourism
• Eg: airports, roads
• Ensure safety and security of tourist sites
• Set up agencies tasked to devise strategies to promote tourism
• Eg: Singapore Tourism Board
MEDIA
• Includes television, radio, newspapers and the Internet
• Positive reports can encourage more tourists, eg good shopping opportunities
• Negative reports can deter visitors, eg occurrence of natural disasters
• Increases awareness of tourist destinations
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS• An international group of different countries that
work together for a common purpose
• Reports produced by such organisations can encourage or discourage tourists in visiting a place
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Tourism Committee
• UNWTO
• Eg: Health updates and travel advisories provided by World Health Organisation (WHO) during the avian influenza would discourage visitors from visiting at-risk countries
TRAVEL WRITERS
• Articles and reviews of travel writers appear in guidebooks, travelogues, magazines and Internet reviews
• Includes suggested itineries, advice on the cheapest accommodation, best gourmet cuisine, the ‘dos and don’ts’ of tourist behaviour and etc
• Source of inspiration to readers
• Increases awareness of tourist destinations